Realm Men Erox for men

Picked up a small bottle of this a few years back. This is a very warm, sensual and spicy fragrance with a musky feel. I don't know if the pheromones actually work or not but this is a nice scent for a decent price. This is actually the only musky fragrance that I have.

When I smell this it kinda reminds me of those guys wearing the cheap suits at the clubs with their polyester shirts halfway unbuttoned, with their chest hairs poking out with a tacky gold chain on. This would have worked very good in the Disco. But I do like it and wear it occasionally.

I have to admit, I picked this one up because of the pheromones. Its not bad a bad scent, although it is a bit sharp, so if I wear it now I will layer it with something else to smooth it out.

If you find it on sale, try a bottle.

This fad fragrance made lots of headway when first introduced. It was promoted to attract women with the pheromones in it. Looking back...it was all a gimmick. But this obsolete old school fragrance still smells great! I have 1 bottle, but use it infrequently.

Fresh spicy, Orange, Ginger, Lavender. yup, that's about it, very very simple, all up front. Pleasant really. Very oddly sweet. Not in a sugary sense, but a powdery musky sweet Vanilla.
Now the actual pheromones, you may not actually even notice, and for like 30% of people(Varies greatly between sources), you won't even know whether you CAN or can't sense it. They work subconsciously, if at all.(Most Androgens and steroid compounds tend to smell Pissy or sweaty, and their oxidation breakdown products quite putrid, or sweet, or nothing at all. They can be wildcards)
Most people have their Jacobson's organ partially buried in cartilage, or entirely buried.. in which case it takes higher concentrations, and it passes diffusively through the tissues.(you'll notice sometimes some wonderful body scents linger in your nostrils a half minute after a hard sniff)
I like to layer this with other scents, like Patchouli, YSL Kouros, Serge Lutens Muscs Koublai Khan... it adds a nice citrusy freshness to just about anything else. Not bad at all. I like it.

When i first smelled this, i had no idea it was supposed to have pheremones in it or anything else about it. I just knew i adored the way it smelled and had to know what it was. Sadly, the scent doesn't quite work on me, and it isn't as good on my husband as it was on the man who wore it when i first discovered it, but i love this fragrance... i've yet to find a single other man's scent that i like anywhere near as much.

Hello All,

This one hit the scene pretty hard when I was in High School. Yeah... All us guys HAD to have a bottle! We believed it to be a magically powerful and mystical panty-dropper of sorts! A real life 'Love Potion No. 9!' WoooHooooo...!! We were on our way! A fast track to countless orgies and chicks just ripping their clothes off as soon as they smelled us!!

Ummm... ... ... Well, as it turns out, us guys seemed to be more attracted to the fragrance than the girls. Now don't get me wrong, my girlfriend liked it. In fact, she even kinda' played along (though the act was VERY short-lived) with this whole ridiculous notion and acted like my fragrance made me "utterly irresistable" to her. Bless her heart for that. She soon became less & less tolerant though - to the increasing amounts of Realm that I applied/doused myself in (with naive hopes of increasing its effects, DUH!), which soon thereafter led to us "conveniently" finding ourselves stopping by the fragrance counter at the local Macy's (even though she had told me that we were there for some makeup crap or whatever), where she very convincingly relayed to me that she was getting me 3 new frags... Oh, and that I basically had no choice in the matter. So I just smiled and said, "k' babe," and sadly realized that my Realm days were now behind me - *sigh*.

Oh well. So it wasn't what most high school guys thought it would be. Nevertheless, I enjoyed my little ride and still catch myself popping the cap every so often & smelling my memories... Anyway, thanks guys and take care!

P.S. - There is definitely amber in this fragrance :-)
I know it's not listed, but I'm sure of it. Let me know what you think :)

Thanks again,

JJ

It's extremly sensual. You know, it's a good mac scent! You know it really has a FRESH edge! It's very spicy! It's definitely something women would never dare put on their butt!

Pheromones or not, it smelled so good on my ex, I almost hope he's still wearing it.

I remember reading in Omni Magazine that they had discovered a gland relating to HUMAN pheromones. They were calling it the VomeroNasal Gland or VNG for short (this is from memory, so forgive if the spelling is off). It was a tiny pit in the upper regions of the nose specifically built for analyzing scents in a much different way than "taste." From this information, they had supposedly isolated a human pheromone, and Erox had patented it and put it in its cologne called "Realm." Realm made a small splash when it hit the market, but the makers said they didn't include the pheromone that would attract the opposite sex in their respective perfumes. The men's cologne would have a pheromone that would make MEN feel good, and the women's was the same for women. They said they did this for ETHICAL reasons...right, a business with ethics, isn't that an oxymoron?! So, if I wanted to make WOMEN feel good around me, I would have to wear the women's perfume. Now if you were gay, you were in luck (or so my twisted logic thought), and I remember I gave a bottle of this to a gay friend for Christmas and asked him to report the results. He never got back to me. Hopefully he was too busy fighting off all of the men, because of the Realm.
As for the aroma of Realm, being the scientist, I had to experiment with this stuff, so I did wear it for awhile. It is not a scent I would normally wear. It is loud sweet...I think someone else classified it as an Oriental Spicy, and I believe it is closer to that than an aromatic Fougere. This stuff is potent patchouli and ginger...definitely screams 80's to me. I worked as a limosine driver, so I was in an enclosed area for long lengths of time with people. To my surprise, people actually said this cologne smelled good.
Since then, I have always kept a small bottle of this in my cologne collection. I don't wear it these days...except for one day, I don't know what possessed me, but I stepped into a few spritzes. I got quite a few comments about "that horrible cheap smelling stuff." Now if people don't like a scent enough to comment on it, I will listen. This may have been acceptable in the 80's and 90's...I think this hit the market in the early 90's...but if they want to market their pheromones in a wearable scent, they need to reformulate.

I have a confession...I was intrigued by the listing of Pheremones in this one's notes. I vaguely remember this one being released in the mid-nineties but was quite the Benetton Boy back in those days. I recently picked this up on a whim at _-Mart and it was much better than I thought it would be...

As far as pheremones go Galleddrim summed it up very well; you can't actually smell them they are more of something you sense and react to as opposed to smelling and picking them out.I have received some compliments on this one (mostly from the 30+ crowd) but suffice it to say it is a very good frag at a decent price, though some may find it too "cologne-y"...

This could be called linear by some as the predominate notes of juniper and ginger are detectable throughout. It is fresher at the start and warmer and softer after it dries. The orange is in the mix with a citric sweetness but it is blended well with the warm aromatic green. The lavender adds to the manly scent and keeps it from getting too spicy. The patchouli is light and grounds it well without being too dirty. All things considered it is a good value for the low price it goes for and it's worth trying out...

Sillage: okay
Longevity: average
Overall: 3/5

Despite it's spicy aromatic approach and it's warm "heart", on total drydown I get a hint of something soapy that tones down the initial blast and smooths the overall feel of it. This is a good one for cold winter nights when you snuggle close to someone you love..

got this as a gift, HATED it right out of the bottle, Hated it on me, hate it on other people. Smells like alcohol to me. -2

This is a very Spicy Oriental cologne. Its very strong when you first apply it. It works well during the spring and summer by itself, but I think it lacks a certain warmth during fall and winter. So i use realm and Armani Code black. Very Unique smell, and a Great combo!

It's not bad. Very, very spicy fragrance. I recommend you spray this only once or else you'll go into the deep end with spices. Pretty much as cheap as a gallon of milk, so if you're broke, this one's for you :p

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I like this, but I have my own pheromones. They work just fine.

(3 Stars)

ignore the pheremones, this is kinda masculine and fresh and smells better than beckham, CK, all the commercial frags

this is definately a good hybrid it has oriental, fresh, sweet and masculine notes all together so its very versatile

My brother has this. It smells like medicine to me.

I think Realm gets no respect because so many people see it as a "gimmick" fragrance. Just because they threw some estratetraenol (EST, pheromone chemical) into the mix.

First, as EST is a feminine pheromone, Realm is not intended to be a babe magnet. Rather, at such low levels, the pheromone would only cause what are known as self-effects, EST acting as a calming and focusing agent (Androstadienone has similar effects on women).

As for the fragrance itself, it is rather nice. Very decent sillage and longevity. The scent is rather linear, but rich, classy, and romantic.

The ginger is prominent, without making Realm smell like ginger bread the way Gucci Envy tends to (though that's nice too), as the florals and herbals balance the ginger nicely.

Odd that no one else has commented on Realm; I find it to be a very good and unique/enigmatic cologne. It has pheromones in it as well, so I thought that would have drawn it to more cologne lover's attention.

Right from the first spray, the incredible indescribable scent becomes noticeable. Not too strong throughout the say, neither is it so odd (unique) smelling that it could be offputting.

I am sure pheromones work to some degree.